Chrisma A. Albandjar is the Department Head for Marketing Communication
of Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN), a leading satellite company in Indonesia. She has over 10 years of experience in the electronic media,
having served at several major television broadcasting companies in Indonesia as a TV journalist, producer and program host. Ms. Albandjar
is heavily involved in the community, media, government and corporate relations of PSN.
In 2001, Chrisma Albandjar received a Fulbright scholarship to study at San Francisco State University where she gained her Master of Arts degree in Radio and Television. She also holds a Master of Management degree from the Prasetiya Mulya School of Business in Jakarta, and a Bachelors degree from Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia.
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Arnold Ph. Djiwatampu was the Program Manager of the first Domestic
Satellite Communication System in Indonesia, Palapa, 1975 - 1977. Presently, he is the President and Founder of PT. Tiara Titian
Telekomunikasi (TT-Tel), a telecommunication consulting company.
During his career, Arnold Ph. Djiwatampu has represented Indonesia at many international forums and conferences, including INTELSAT and ITU.
He was the elected Vice Chairman and Chairman of the ITU Council for 1989-90 and 1990-91 and Director of the ITU Bureau for Telecommunications Development (BDT) in 1993-1994.
He was Deputy Director General for Telecommunications and Deputy Director General for Standardization at the Directorate General of Posts and Telecommunications of the Republic of Indonesia (DG POSTEL) in 1988 - 1991 and 1991-1992.
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Gregorius Parlindungan Hutahaean, Ir. MM, is Communication Specialist,
and Lintasarta VSAT Project Leader for CSM providing marketing support and business development. Since 1992 he has been Project Leader of VSAT
for rural telephony, a joint project between CSM, Telkom Divre VII and Bukaka SingTel International.
He holds a Telecommunication Engineering degree from Bandung Institute of Technology and a Master of Management from Prasetiya Mulya School of Business in Jakarta.
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Marwah Daud Ibrahim graduated from the Department of Communication, Faculty
of Social and Political Science, Hasanuddin University, Makasar, South Sulawesi, in 1981. She received her Ph.D from the American University,
Washington DC, in 1989. She was the former General Secretary of the Association of Indonesian Muslims Intellectual (ICMI).
She is a politician, a prominent fugure in the Golkar Party, one of the biggest political parties in Indonesia. She serves on the national board of the party and as a member of the Indonesian parliament. In the 2004 Indonesian presidential election, she was the running-mate of one of the presidential candidates, Abdurrahman Wahid.
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Tonda Priyanto is the General Manager of TELKOM's Satellite Business Unit.
Tonda Priyanto graduated from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 1987 and obtained his Masters degree in Telecommunication Technology at Aston University in 1995.
He joined TELKOM in 1987. His first five years assignment was in satellite operations specializing in SCPC/DAMA. During 1995-1996, he was the technical leader for the WLL project in East Java. From 1996 to 1999 he was a member of the TELKOM-1 satellite project team as the senior payload engineer in TELKOM's representative office at Lockheed Martin, USA.
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Onno Purbo is a Research Fellow with the ICTs for Development (ICT4D) program
area of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Dr.Purbo has
dedicated his life to promoting the dissemination of knowledge through information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Indonesia, both
as a professor at Bandung's Institute of Technology (ITB) Bandung, and as the author of nearly 1000 articles and close to 40 books.
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Hilman Rasyid is the BYRU Marketing Department Head at PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara.
Graduated from the University of Indonesia with a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering in 1996, Mr. Rasyid has 6 years of technical experience at the Garuda/ACeS Gateway Engineering and Operations Department of PSN during which time he was involved in the final design, deployment and operational stages of the gateway. At the Technical Department of PSN, he last held the position of Gateway Engineering Manager responsible for assuring the quality and performance of the gateway operations. In 2002, Mr. Rasyid joined the marketing team as the Product Manager for BYRU where one of his main responsibilities includes product and services planning & development.
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Ir. Rafdian Rasyid M.Kom is General Manager, Commercial Technology Architecture at PT.
Infokom Elektrindo. He has more than ten years of experience in the telecommunication and networking business leading many projects
and devising various IT and telecommunication solutions for Infokom's customers. Before joining Infokom, Rafdian was a researcher at
IUC-Microelectronics of the Bandung Institute of Technology in the area of Image Processing and Robotic Vision.
His articles and scientific papers have been published in national newspapers, magazines, and presented at international conferences. Rafdian holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Indonesia and a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Bandung Institute of Technology.
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Prima Setiyanto Widodo is a Telecommunications Systems Specialist at the
Business Development Division of PT. Aplikanusa Lintasarta. He received his Bachelors Degree in 1992 from the University of Indonesia
majoring in digital image processing and his Master of Engineering Degree from the Institute of Technology Bandung in 2003.
In 1993 he worked at the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), Directorate of Electronic and Information Technology. In March 1993 he joined PT. Aplikanusa Lintasarta where he works on Lintasarta's Networks Masterplan, and traffic engineering for a number of Lintasarta's banking clients. Prima Setiyanto Widodo has been a member of the Indonesian Satellite Association - Asosiasi Satelit Indonesia (ASSI) since 2000.
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Ir. Rakhim Yuba graduated from the Hasanuddin University in Makassar, Indonesia as an
electrical engineer (S1) in 1985. In his work at LAPAN, the Indonesian Aeronautical and Space Institute, he has conducted research
on Terrestrial Packet Data Communications and Digital Store & Readout of Digital Images for Micro Satellites, as well as other
research in the framework of the LAPAN-TUB Micro Satellite Project.
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Regional Development: Indonesia
Fall 2005
Historical Overview
The Planning and Development of PALAPA
p. 1, p. 2, p. 3Satellite Development in Indonesia
Current Developments
Pacific Satellite Nusantara (PSN)
p. 1, p. 2Indonesian VSAT Industry (CSM)
Future Perspectives
Contributors
